The True Story of Julius Caesar.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 10574 |
| Format | 16.5 x 23.5 |
| Détails | 448 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2007 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251443188 |
Caius Julius Caesar: this exceptional human being who became a legend from the moment of his assassination, who inspired Bonaparte to become Napoleon, this power-mad man to the point of dying for it, the one who spent fortunes on largesse and bribes, this nobleman who relied on the people so that he could one day be proclaimed dictator for life, the one who gave his family nickname to his successors as if they were heirs and his surname to a month of the year and to our calendar... Everything has been said about him: gossip about his sexuality, unjustified cruelty in Gaul, a sick cult of personality, political intrigues and palm-greasing... How can we get a fair and precise idea of this protean character, as he appeared to his contemporaries? How can we tell his "true" story? We have at our disposal the ancient texts that have come down to us: works written on the spot by Caesar's own hand (The Gallic Wars and the Civil War) or written by a pseudonym (The Alexandrian War, the African War and the Spanish Civil War), portraits drawn up from hearsay and archives still existing more than a century after his death by the Latin historian Suetonius and the Greek moralist Plutarch, but also the correspondence of Cicero, without forgetting the epic poem The Pharsalia by Lucan and the texts of Greek historians in Rome such as Cassius Dio and Appian. And it is with these texts, and these texts alone, that we offer to lovers of true History this "true Caesar"...
Caius Julius Caesar: this exceptional human being who became a legend from the moment of his assassination, who inspired Bonaparte to become Napoleon, this power-mad man to the point of dying for it, the one who spent fortunes on largesse and bribes, this nobleman who relied on the people so that he could one day be proclaimed dictator for life, the one who gave his family nickname to his successors as if they were heirs and his surname to a month of the year and to our calendar... Everything has been said about him: gossip about his sexuality, unjustified cruelty in Gaul, a sick cult of personality, political intrigues and palm-greasing... How can we get a fair and precise idea of this protean character, as he appeared to his contemporaries? How can we tell his "true" story? We have at our disposal the ancient texts that have come down to us: works written on the spot by Caesar's own hand (The Gallic Wars and the Civil War) or written by a pseudonym (The Alexandrian War, the African War and the Spanish Civil War), portraits drawn up from hearsay and archives still existing more than a century after his death by the Latin historian Suetonius and the Greek moralist Plutarch, but also the correspondence of Cicero, without forgetting the epic poem The Pharsalia by Lucan and the texts of Greek historians in Rome such as Cassius Dio and Appian. And it is with these texts, and these texts alone, that we offer to lovers of true History this "true Caesar"...